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Chen Guanrong was born in Guangzhou in 1948. Suffered from the “Cultural Revolution,” he did not have a chance to receive any college education. Through selfstudies for about ten years, when the “Cultural Revolution” was ended he took and passed with honors all nationwide university entrance exams thereby becoming a graduate student of the Sun Yatsen University at Guangzhou in 1978, where he received his M.Sc. degree in computational mathematics in 1981. He then went on to USA for higher education and received his Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Texas A&M University in 1987. Thereafter, he worked at Rice University as a visiting assistant professor in 1987-1990, at the University of Houston through tenure track till became a full professor in 1990-1999, and then at City University of Hong Kong as a chair professor and the founding director of the Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks since year 2000.
Prof. Chens main research pursuit is in nonlinear systems control and dynamics with applications in complex networks and nonlinear sciences. He is the (co)author of 23 technical books, more than 500 SCI journal papers and near 300 conference abstracts, published since 1981, receiving more than 10,000 citations by others, with h_index 60, and is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering.
Prof. Chen was elected IEEE Fellow in 1996, for his fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of chaos control and bifurcation analysis. He received numerous prestigious awards, especially the 2008 National Natural Science Award of China. Other significant awards include the 1998 HardenSimons Annual Prize for Outstanding Journal Paper from the American Society of Engineering Education, the 2001 IEEE M. Barry Carlton Best Annual Paper Award from the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, the 2002 Best Paper Award from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and the 2005 IEEE GuilleminCauer Best Annual Paper Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He served and is serving as editorinchief, advisory editor and associate editor for about twenty SCI journals. He served as chairman and organizer for about 100 international workshops and conferences, holds 3 technical patents granted by USA and China, and has supervised 17 PhD and 28 MS students worldwide.
Prof. Chen was invited to give lectures and seminars for many times in more than 30 countries. He was conferred Honorary Doctor degree by the Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, and he is Honorary Professor, Advisory Professor and GuestChair Professor of some 30 universities worldwide, including Honorary Professor of the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina; Honorary Professor of the Central Queensland University and University of Ballarat, Australia; Honorary Adjunct Professor of University of Houston, USA; ChangJiang Chair Professor of Peking University, and Honorary GuestChair Professor of Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University, and Sun Yatsen University, among others.
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